ANT - Deleting directories - what am I doing wrong?

[Joe Vahabzadeh]

But, I must clearly be doing something wrong.

I have the following snippet from my build.xml:

	<target name="cleanAll">
		<antcall target="cleanModule">
			<param name="project.name" value="Project-1" />
		</antcall>
		<antcall target="cleanModule">
			<param name="project.name" value="Project-2" />
		</antcall>
	</target>

	<target name="cleanModule">
		<echo message="Cleaning: ${project.name}..." />
		<delete dir="../${project.name}/bin" includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="false" />
		<delete dir="../${project.name}/src" includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="false" />
		<delete dir="../${project.name}/test" includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="false" />
		<delete dir="../${project.name}/lib" includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="false" />
		<echo message="Clean of ${project.name} complete." />
	</target>

This build.xml exists in:
C:\Users\KingV\workspace\Project-Common

which is an Eclipse project, and thus in Eclipse the project name is Project-Common.

The other projects are, obviously, Project-1, and Project-2, and exist in:
C:\Users\KingV\workspace\Project-1
C:\Users\KingV\workspace\Project-2


Now, the snippet I have works, but I'm trying to figure out how to get a single line to delete all directories inside a project's directory, but NOT files that are directly inside the project directory - and I'd also like to exclude the .settings directory from being deleted.

I've tried a few variants, but they're either too aggressive (delete everything, including the files, the .settings directory, the .project file, etc), or even delete the Project-1 and Project-2 folders themselves as well... or they delete the contents of the subdirectories, but leave the directories intact - ie Project-1/bin still exists, but everything below it is gone, etc.

So . . uh, how do I do this? I get the feeling I'm missing something incredibly simple here...

Thanks in advance.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

This code does what you describe. It's a lot longer, but more generic. I can't think of a shorter way to do it.

<delete includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="false"> <fileset dir="${project.name}"> <include name="**/*" /> <exclude name="**/settings/*" /> <exclude name="*" /> </fileset> </delete> <delete includeemptydirs="true" failonerror="false"> <fileset dir="${project.name}"> <and> <size value="0" /> <type type="dir" /> </and> </fileset> </delete>